Burlesque Performer Dirty Martini Scandalizes NYC’s Harvard Club

Halloween is the time of year to scare the shit out of people, and this year a bunch of stuffy old rich guys got properly scared by the sight of topless burlesque performer Dirty Martini at New York City's elite Harvard Club. According to Page Six (link below), the issue wasn't so much who was topless as it was the club's strict no-nudity policy.

The international burlesque sensation reclined provocatively on a couch, seductively sipping a cocktail, as artist Skye Ferrante created a sculpture of her famous curves in wire before guests Friday at the HCNY Foundation’s Halloween Masquerade Ball.

Blond bombshell Dirty was told, “This is the first time there has ever been nudity in the history of the Harvard Club, founded in 1865, and definitely the last,” according to a source, adding, “Members complained about seeing Martini’s naked body, so organizers threw a cape over her, and insisted she wear pasties as ‘nipples are not for the Harvard Club.’ ”

So who's a member of the Harvard Club, and better yet, who lodged a complaint about the nipples? I'm glad you asked...

Masked guests at the lavish bash, including infomercial king AJ Khubani and his wife Poonam, took in performances by ­mezzo-soprano Carla Jablonski, acrobat Nico Maffey, violinist Charles Yang and magician Mark Mitton. Artist Ferrante told us, “There were two firsts at the Harvard Club — they’ve never had burlesque and they’ve never had nudity, and they’ll never have it again. Perhaps the guests were too dazzled . . . There was only one way I could get the sculpture of her beautiful body and that was to have her in the nude.”

In case you've not heard the name before, AJ Khubani is the guy on the right in this picture, posing with the other two members of the infomercial Illuminati Anthony Sullivan and Billy Mays.

Khubani's fundamental misunderstanding of the art of burlesque didn't dissuade the unflappable Dirty Martini though...

“You’d think a high-class place like the Harvard Club would be used to nude modeling. Most people were polite, but even international burlesque sensations have trouble with nudity from time to time. They made me cover up with a dime-store vampire cape. Even with a degree from Harvard, it’s odd that they are not used to seeing a naked woman. It is about innocence and beauty rather than something tawdry.”

Via Page Six